Railroad



Patented Dec. 17, 1929 STATES PATENT OFFICE RAJILROAD Application filed November 6, 1926, Serial No. 146,713, and in Germany August 10, 1925.

The object of my invention is to improve upon railroad tracks as they are in use today, and thereby beneiit greatly railroading in general. My eforts Were directed towards eliminating and joints of the rails in use at the present time and have led me to the discovery that this may be achieved by employing compound rails, thatis to say rails of certain smailer sections Which When assembled produce a compound raii of approximately the section or" the single compact rails used at present. The tracks are then built in such a Way that never more than one of the rails making up the compound starts aneW, at a time. The accompanying drawing shows the invention.

If, for instance, in a rail made up of four parts the third one starts aneW, the sections Numbers 1, 2, and 4 continue, and so on, in such a Way that the train runs on endless rails, practically Speaking, and the ars and joints as 01"' the solid rails now in use have dsappeared completely.

I claini as my nvention:

1. In a compound rail, a vertical, longitudinally subdivided, doWnWardly laterally outwardly fiaring and upwardly laterally thickened intermediate section, and complemental lateral rail sections engaging said intermediate sections at the sides thereof.

2. In a compound rail an intermediate, lono'itudinally extending and longitudinally sub/divided, vertical, cross-sectionally laterally broadened interior rail-seotion, and complemental lateral rail-sections closely engaging With the entire side-surfaces of said. interior section, and fiush With the upper surface of said interior section.

3. In a compound rail, an intermediate, longitudinally subdivided, upright, rail section, comprising an outwardly fiaring bottom portion, and complemental la-teral rail sections engaging the intermediate section and of substantially equal height therewith.

ft. In a compound rail, an upright, interinediate section, comprising an outwardly hei/'elied thickcned supporting base portion,

and complemental lateral sections, engaging the entire side-surface of the intermediate section, and flush With the tread surface thereof.

In testimeny Whereot I affix my signature.

HELLMUTH REINHARDT ROSENBAUM. 

